The Problem Solver Double Pack

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Get twice the advice for breaking through your brick walls! This combo includes two of our most popular research solutions references—in classic printed format—for one low price.

The Family Tree Problem Solver

Proven Solutions for Your Research Challenges

Has your family history research hit a brick wall? Marsha Hoffman Rising's best-selling book The Family Tree Problem Solver has the solutions to help you find the answers you seek. Inside you'll find:

Ideas on how to find vital records before civil registration

Tips for finding "missing" ancestors on censuses

Instructions for investigating collateral kin to further your pedigree

A look at advanced court records and how they can help you find answers

Work-arounds for lost or destroyed records

Techniques for correctly identifying and researching ancestors with common names

Methods for finding ancestors who lived before 1850

Case studies that show how to apply the author's advice to real-life research roadblocks

Strategies for analyzing your problem and creating a successful research plan

This revised edition also includes new information about online research techniques and a look at the role of DNA research. Plus you'll find a glossary of genealogy terms and more than a dozen templates for charts and logs to help you organize and record your research. Let The Family Tree Problem Solver help you find the answers you need today.

101 Brick Wall Busters: Solutions to Overcome Your Genealogical Challenges

Break through your brick walls!

Your family history research is humming along just fine — you've discovered a trove of old letters here, a census and a birth certificate there. Then something genealogists call a brick wall stops you cold: You can't find the record you need. Your great-grandmother's maiden name eludes you. You don't know where your immigrant ancestor was born.

Now you can meet those obstacles with the advice in 101 Brick Wall Busters: Solutions to Overcome Your Genealogical Challenges. This compilation of Family Tree Magazine experts' answers to readers' toughest questions offers solutions for beginning and veteran genealogists. You'll learn strategies and discover new resources for tracing missing ancestors, finding the right records, researching in the old country and more. And you can use our exclusive Records Checklist and Brick Wall Worksheet to formulate your plan of attack.

101 Brick Wall Busters is your secret weapon for getting over, around, under and through obstacles in your family history search.

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